Author: Yun Su

Xiuqi Fang is Professor of physical geography, working in the Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. He has published more than 300 articles in the fields of past climate change, climate change and civilization, and land use/cover changes. Yun Su is Professor of physical geography, working in the Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. She has published more than 50 articles in the fields of past climate change and its impacts. Her research interests also include natural disaster history. Jingyun Zheng is Research Professor in climatology, working in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 200 papers on the Chinese and international journals. Particularly, he developed the temperature series and precipitation index dataset over eastern China for the past 2000 years based on Chinese historical documents, which has been widely used for studying climatechange and the impacts in historical times. Lingbo Xiao is Associate Professor of historical geography, working in the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China. His main research interests are historical climate change and its social impacts, disaster history, and environmental history. Zhudeng Wei is Associate Professor of physical geography, working in the School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science &Technology. He is interested in the study of past climate change, climatic impact and adaptation, and ecological meteorology. Jun Yin is Associate Professor of physical geography, working in Lhasa Tibetan Plateau Scientific Research Center. He has worked in the field of past climate change, climate change, and social vicissitudes in China over the past two millennia.